Events & Workshops

Book Bytes is a lunchtime online reading series celebrating the work of Saskatchewan writers of diverse genres, identities, and experience levels. Events this year will run on September 10 and September 17 via Zoom.

 

Please be mindful of your time zone, as all times listed are Saskatchewan time. Find your time zone here: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

 

To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rELMioDITbmfZ4PBeiZnTw

 

This event will be recorded and uploaded as an unlisted video (meaning that only registered participants will be able to access the video, or sent by request) available for 30 days on the SWG YouTube channel following the event: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAIIcrpQW0NcY6ZM0GGSzw

 

The Guild is fortunate to have the support of our major funders who make events like this possible: Sask Lotteries in proud partnership with SaskCulture, Canada Council for the Arts and the City of Regina. 

 

Readings by

Benjamin Johnson

Rowan F. Neufeld

Mark Romphf

 

Host: Andrea Martineau

 

Readers

 

Benjamin Johnson (he/him) lives and writes on Treaty 6 Territory in the Canadian Prairies, his work focusing on queering space through magic and camp. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has had work published previously by the Ex-Puritan, Necessary Fiction, Hunger Mountain Review, among others. You can find him on Instagram @benja.dam or email him at benj.adam554@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rowan F. Neufeld (he/him) is a poet from Saskatoon on Treaty Six Territory. He is the Executive Director of JackPine Press and recently apprenticed with Bruce Rice as part of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild 2025 mentorship program. Rowan’s work has been published in Silence Zine and Poetry All Over the Floor: Volume One. When not writing, you’ll find him crafting or distracted by birds.

 

 

 

Mark Romphf was born and remains in Saskatoon. He graduated from Saskatchewan Polytechnic back when it was called SIAST and has since been working as an over-caffeinated software developer. He is lazy about changing his guitar strings and manages winter with a frivolous collection of patterned sweaters. Online he sometimes goes by Mike Romeo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Host

 

Andrea Martineau

Andrea Martineau is a writer, poet, bibliophile, and phytomaniac with a penchant for heritage buildings and their paranormal tenants. Her poetry has previously been published and shared in untethered magazine, Blank Spaces, [SPACE], Figroot Press, and The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause. She now resides on Treaty Four Territory in Oksana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan) with her family, rescue cats, Horsfield tortoise, and collection of houseplants, where she is writing her first novel.

 

 

 

 

 

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